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The Advantages of a RAID 5 System:

RAID 5 is one of the most popular arrays selected by users for their systems, thanks largely to the improved protection that it offers your data. It has an improved write performance, which renders it somewhat more efficient, and mirrors saved data across three drives, ensuring additional back-up in the event of one of the drives failing. However, despite being a highly effective way of protecting data, the RAID 5 is, like any other system, not immune to malfunction. If you require server data recovery as a result of your RAID 5 failing, then it’s important to know who to contact and what action to take to ensure successful RAID 5 data recovery.

What to Do in the Event of Failure:

In the event that you encounter problems with your RAID 5 server, it’s important to know what steps to take to assist smooth server data recovery. Firstly, shut off the system to minimize any further issues developing. Then call a <strong>RAID 5 data recovery expert<strong>, who can save your data, and conduct a thorough diagnostic examination of the system, to ascertain exactly what the cause of the problem was.

Failings To RAID 5 Servers:

A RAID 5 array can be used in the home, small businesses or large corporations for the storage and retrieval of high volumes of data that more than one person may need access to and any one time. With this in mind you have to consider the possibility that such devices – especially the hard drives inside them – will fail due to heavy usage. RAID devices are becoming the IT work horse of many a company these days and with that in mind many companies are turning to us here at Belfast Data Recovery for help when their drives fail or cannot be accessed. We are experienced with many different makes and configuration of RAID array and also the problems they encounter such as data corruption, damaged controller cards, missing partitions and disk failures after a rebuild

Unprepared For RAID 5 Drive Breakdowns Due To Faulty Mechanics:

A RAID 5 mechanical failure can sometimes leave you with one drive malfunctioning while the rest of your server/array will continue on and pick up the slack by mirroring the data across the remaining drives. Although this sounds fine in practice there are problems inherent with this, which, if not dealt with, can cause the loss of data on a huge scale. If you have suffered from a RAID failure on a physical hardware level contact us at Belfast Data Recovery where we can best advise on how to recover your system and your data

We are asked on a daily basis to help individuals and companies recover from a failure after a RAID rebuild. Having replaced a RAID disk and performing a rebuild does not necessarily mean your problems are over and indeed this can lead to further problems. Many RAID rebuilds result in a boot failure or data not being fully restored afterwards. We pride ourselves on our ability to help many companies and individuals recover their data and their RAID array from an incomplete or flawed rebuild

Third Party And Array Firmware Failures In Your RAID 5 Setup:

All hard drives including those in RAID 5 setups require firmware to allow them to operate correctly with the motherboards they are connected to. To this end if a firmware program is out of date or corrupt then there is a likelihood that one or more of your RAID drives will not function if this firmware is not correct. When this happens data can be lost, as it may not be written to the right place if written at all. Here at Belfast Data Recovery we are experts in dealing with faulty or corrupted firmware within RAID setups.

You may have had the same RAID 5 setup for some time or indeed may have changed it for a new one but there is no telling when a RAID controller card may decide to malfunction. Even after replacing a RAID controller card the RAID setup may not boot in the manner it is supposed to and in some instances may not boot at all. Partitions may corrupt or the volume may be reported as being more or less than its actual size. This may lead to incorrect reading and writing of data to your RAID drives

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